I remember that (at least in part) the title came from the phrase “pulling the wool over someone’s eyes.” That analogy unfortunately doesn’t translate directly over into German, meaning they’d need to come up with something that fits. SILO does certainly describe the series, even if it lacks the double meaning. *shrug*

Yeah “Wool” as in ‘pull the wool over your eyes’ is translated (according to Leo)

To fool with a blue mist (Jemand blauen Dunst vormachen)

so no that was never going to work with the word “Wool” – Wolle has a pun possibility with “wollen” – cognate with ‘to will’ – a helper verb meaning – well, “I will” but it doesn’t really fold in to the text.

I’m only an intermediary German speaker, I know a lot of idioms but not these. (/German off.)

I love Germany Hugh, where are you going there? Do you have a German/English interpreter? It helps. I’d volunteer but I have no time off to be your volunteer German guide!

whoops just saw your answer about Berlin. Berlin is – kinda big. I preferred the smaller cities. But if they are producing a press run in hardback – Germans are serious readers: they are serious readers of sci fi. Everybody’s got hardbacks in their living room bookshelves – hundreds of them.

Uhm… Am I the only one who doesn’t like this trailer? Who is this red-eyed vamp… I mean woman? Allison? Why is she so dirty then? Juliette? Why is she cleaning then? The screen in the helmet has to be just 8×2 inches, why can we see the whole face of the vamp-cleaner? And it looks like a gas mask in which is possible to breathe the outside air; although we know it must NOT be possible…
IMHO this trailer is good just for one thing – commercial advertisement. I don’t think I would like the movie made like that.